Wrangell residents may see a survey show up in their mailboxes this month. They are being sent out by graduate student Britta Schroeder for her project on the Tongass. Britta Schroeder used to live in Southeast and worked for the Forest Service in the Wrangell Ranger District for five years. Now she’s a graduate student at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Wrangell’s annual Tent City Days festival was last weekend. This is one in a series of audio postcards KSTK’s Shady Grove Oliver sent back from the event. In this postcard, Gold Rush Flea Market vendor Marian Glenz speaks about her best friend’s doilies, her own books, and remembers her husband and his woodwork.

Wrangell’s annual Tent City Days festival was last weekend. This is the one of a series of audio postcards KSTK’s Shady Grove Oliver sent back from the event. In this postcard, Mable McMurren speaks about the award-winning homemade jellies, jams, and other canned goods at her Gold Rush Flea Market booth.

Tuesday’s Borough Assembly meeting saw the approval of all items on the agenda as well as the appointment of a new mayor. Assembly member David Jack will be serving as Borough Mayor until the end of the term in October 2013.

Wrangell’s annual Tent City Days festival was last weekend. This is the second in a series of audio postcards KSTK’s Shady Grove Oliver sent back from the event. In this postcard, local craftswoman Jo Ellen Wendel speaks about her handmade scarves, jewelry and salve at her Gold Rush Flea Market booth.

Wrangell’s annual Tent City Days festival was last weekend. This is the first in a series of audio postcards KSTK’s Shady Grove Oliver sent back from the event. In this postcard, local soap maker Jamie Townsend speaks about her craft at her Gold Rush Flea Market booth.

There are thousands of miles of fiber optic cables snaking along the ocean floor. They bring telephone service, television, and the internet to much of world. When an earthquake struck off the coast of Southeast Alaska in January, the cables that provide Internet to Wrangell were damaged. A cable repair ship, called the Wave Venture, was called to help.